From mr. selfish Sent Fri, Nov 7th 1997, 22:49
From mr. selfish Sent Fri, Nov 7th 1997, 22:49
>>From what I understand about Kid Koala he doesn't use headphones >>during any of his sets [is this true?] and that he also cues the >>records up by just having a piece of tape on the starting groove >>and shebam drops it right into the part of the cut that he wants >>to scratch or whatever. My guess is that the happy face sticker >>was just a cute cuemarker of some sort. > >Yep, standard hip-hop battle DJ style. No time to find a beat by listening >for it... i've seen plenty of folks taping up their records, one of the best outlets to see this technique is the dmc championship videos, dj noise from holland in specific. he blows through about 60 records in 3.5 min, never missing a moment cause the tape leads him to his groove every time. those in tha know, do tell truths to triumph with this tape trick. first of all, depending on where the desired scratch groove is located, yer either going on the inside or outside of the tape. now, in order to drop that tape in the pree-cise location, yer either going to have a great eye (and memory, all them grooves look the sme once you've lifted that needle) and surgeon steady hand, or there's a way (that i have not yet discovered) to taping records while the needles still in the groove (now you've gotta manuveur a leetle tiny piece of tape under yer cartriges without knocking shit around. i figure there's gotta be a better way. is the trick to use a certain type o tape, one that doesn't leave sticky needle-gumming shit all over yer wax, and then taping first and (carefully, o so carefully) slicing the excess away later? is the trick in them battle ready shure cartriges that may stand a little higher off the record surface, making taping underneath a whole chore easier? (i use 680el's so that there might be my prob). trial and error? wild hypothesis? news yous' can use? on my mind now: my r8 manual cameron ===================================== cameron bowden xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx blacksmith on the anvil in your ear _____________________________________